Leave food / drink that should be hot, cold in a dish. Some that should be cold make hot etc - ready for the Beaver Scouts to try as they come in. Create a simple questionnaire for them to complete - did they like cold custard, hot lemonade etc?
Dress up relay
Have a pile of clothes per team (woolly hat, coat, sunglasses, beach towel, gloves etc). On the command (eg: it is very hot today) the first Beaver Scout runs to their team's pile of clothes and put on the appropriate piece of clothing.
Hot and Cold collage
Pile of magazines, old catalogues etc.Draw a line down the middle of either individual pieces of A4 or one large piece per lodge. The Beaver Scouts have to create a collage of pictures of things that are hot on one side, and cold on the other.
True and False
Make a list of questions to which the answer is true or false - to do with hot & cold things:We get snow in winter - true
Snow is hot - false
We get cold in the sunshine - false
Tell the Beaver Scouts that one wall is the true wall, the other the false wall. They have to run to the correct wall when the question is asked. Last one there is out!
What is hot, what is cold
How can we tell without touching?
Do hot things look different?
What different foods can we have hot and cold?
Spicy ones are hot to taste but not to touch - try some.
